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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 5817347" data-attributes="member: 957">Yes, something like that would be perfectly acceptable.  I reacted to an example of a sword turning to stone and throwing it down before it got there.There may be options that are not to my taste but anything that fits with if you *DID* look, you are stone solves the issue at hand.  I do like my banshees really scary.  But banshees are a bit more abstract as well.  It is more a curse of imminent death rather than a drop dead on the spot.To me it comes back to modeling the stories.  The classic stories* involve a lot of heroic back and forth swordplay with combatants wearing each other down.  So that works.  I take a great deal of artistic license in describing weapon "hits".  A crit on a target that either has or is down to low HP is typically fairly graphic.  Whereas a low damage blow that happens to be the one that drops a character into negatives is usually the blow that got through to the gut, or whatever.  I'm perfectly content with the great axe crit that would have taken off a commoner's head being described as some degree of serious flesh wound on the previously unwounded 12th level fighter.  The fighter's skill/fate/karma/luck turned the head shot into a shoulder gash.  When you say "executioner's axe" you paint a more specific scenario.  It is mathematically possible to survive a coup-de-grace in 3E, but I've yet to see it actually happen.  So in that scenario the axe *IS* just as deadly (if not moreso).* And I very readily admit this is a total hodge podge of everything from classic myth to the latest B movie.</blockquote>

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